Currency 101

Christmas is the perfect time for making plans. But if you’re feeling the post-Christmas pinch, finding the money for a home in the sun may not be top of your festive activity list. Perhaps it should be! Here are five ways you might be able to raise the money to...

In 2019 can we expect any respite from the currency volatility that has been such a problem for property buyers abroad? We think you know the answer to that! So why wait? Lock in your exchange rate before Christmas and you can spend your holidays planning an amazing,...

If you’re planning to buy a home in the next 12 months, your pounds are balancing on a seesaw right now. Here we run through seven plausible Brexit scenarios and analyse the likely affect on the exchange rate. Don’t think this just applies to the GBP/EUR. Every...

These are exciting times for anyone looking to move abroad or buy a home abroad. Or indeed, move back to the UK. When it comes to changing your pounds for that big transaction, they’re interesting times indeed! So much is in the air at the moment and that uncertainty...

We’re almost a month into the new quarter and it’s certainly proving to be an interesting one. With just five months until Brexit, political volatility is dominating the headlines – and, with so many false starts over the last few weeks, what lies ahead is...

We all know that exchange rates are constantly changing – all you need to do is to look at our live rates if you ever needed confirmation. But for many of us, what it actually is that pulls the markets back and forth isn’t so clear. This week, we’re...